12 years to call

 Red letter day today as I know you still care 

You called me on my phone 

A little wait is a lot of weight 

For just a man alone

A dozen years and a dozen beers 

Both affect a man the same 

Make you crazy, lil bit lazy

May forget your own damn name 

The day arrives it’s finally here 

A blessing down the line 

I hear your voice, I know your choice 

Your life enmeshed with mine 

I now know why I I learned to cry 

I learned to lie and languish 

Just thought I was crying didn’t know I was dying 

I took wine for me in my anguish

Today’s wine and beer are not quite clear 

Though it’s probably drugs 

Makes nights hazy and days quite lazy 

Ain’t  no replacement for hugs 

I don’t want to die, I’m too young to perish 

Beer and wine for some other poor man 

They aren’t like me, I can now be carefree 

Since you’re  back, my life’s now in hand 

Can’t see why I suffered so could be fate just don’t know 

Looking back trying to see through the fog 

Drug dungeon is dark, so why’d I just park 

Now I’m flying, living high on the hog 

I must ask the question, what took you so long 

12 years is a mighty long time 

I thought I had lost you, now know what it cost you

Let’s face it, a call costs a dime 

Just what were you thinking, or were you just drinking 

Believing the enemy’s lies 

You think that you love it and can’t rise above it

Day comes when you cut him down to size

Clear day arrives you’re now all alert 

Look back you can see it, the fog

Stay now just jolly, don’t repeat that there folly

Since you now see it, don’t be it...the dog.

Proverbs 31:6-7

Let beer be for those who are perishing,

wine for those who are in anguish!

Let them drink and forget their poverty

and remember their misery no more.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to its vomit,

so fools repeat their folly.